I have nothing else besides that. Incredible. The Black Cab Sessions has some of the best impromptu one take performances for some of today’s (and yesterday’s) best indie artists. Each time I am blown away by both the quality of the artist and then performance and recording. Take a run through some of the live performances as well as the provided originals below.
Example one of this perfection is Bill Callahan’s and his signature voice on “River Guard”. This track is from Smog’s album “Knock, Knock” from 1999.
Another favourite is “Nevada” from Scout Niblett’s 2007 album “This Fool Can Die Now”. She just is crazy good, emphasis on the crazy. This is one intense track – watch her grit her teeth while singing!
While both these two artists are considered favourites of mine, it is the performances here that make these songs elevate. I encourage you to visit Black Cab Sessions for more spectacular performances from artists such as – Fleet Foxes, My Morning Jacket, Johnny Flynn, Calexico and even Death Cab for Cutie!
If I can recommend one other website (besides Slowcoustic…) it would be Black Cab Sessions most definitely. Bookmark the site this very Monday on your way to work, after work or while combing the classifieds in order to get work (yes, if you can guess, I am at work today!).
~Smansmith
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4 responses to “The Incredible Black Cab Sessions”
Damn, this is aaaaaaaabsolutely amazing.. I had never heard of them… this is chills and lots of new bands i haven’t heard of…
muchos gracias Smansmiths, you keep on being the music guru ;-)
I adore Scout Niblett’s performance here. This song is in itself so intense, and this performance was just brilliant.
Two absolutely brilliant videos from – as you say – two fantastic artists. Having seen them both play fine performances live, it’s heartening to see that they come up with the goods in cab context as well as onstage.
I wonder if the taxi driver had any warning as to what Scout’s voice would be like … For a wee thing, she sure can belt it out.
Great find. Thanks.
[…] We all know that I love (and I mean love, honour and respect till death we do part) the Black Cab Sessions. It always brings a smile to my face and a great tune to my ears. They get some serious talent, do great recordings and you get a glimpse of some the artists in a real, everyday situation. Well, if acoustically performing incredible songs is an everyday situation that is. The below 2 sessions caught me the other day and I have to post them for you (albeit in YouTube form due to new “embedding practices”) in case you haven’t bookmarked it already and put a Google alert on it! […]